Will man (or machine?) ever go beyond the terrain of Mars?

Question

To the likes of Saturn and so on........

Answer 1

ignoring the amount of time it'll take for it to happen, i'm going to say yes. it's almost guaranteed machine will go farthest in space first and understood that once we develop the next gen of space technology at that point in history, mankind will soon follow

Answer 2

Space craft carrying machines have already gone to all the planets. Not landed on them, but flown past them and taken closeup pictures. There was even one that landed on Saturn's Moon Titan not too long ago.

Answer 3

they are working on sending a robotic sub to the icy moons of either Jupiter or Saturn, more then likely it will Europa, the robot has already been in the antarctic for testing, they want to launch the mission in about 2015 or so......dig under the thick layer of ice on Jupiter's moon Europa then submerge into the water where the robot can look for life and map out the ocean.

Answer 4

We already have sent machines through out our solar system... Galileo sent a satellite to Jupiter and launched a prob into its atmosphere... Cassini went to Saturn and dropped a prob onto titan one of its moon's that has a very very thick atmosphere of mostly nitrogen and lil bit of methane and trace gases and it has oceans of liquid methane... also voyager 1 and 2 flew by uranus and neptune as well... now they are in the heliosheath (this is where the suns energy starts to fade and is only a bright point in the distance) and should comepletely exit the solar system within 10 years into interstellar space..

Answer 5

Yes...we already have.  Machines that is.

Answer 6

AND----------We have already landed a probe on Titan one of Saturn's moons--

Answer 7

man is unlikely to bother with stepping on Mars.

what for?  its not like we are gonna learn a h**l of a lot.

we can't live there.

we can't even build a safe source of electricity on Earth... let's place 'man on mars' where it belongs... fiction.

Answer 8

maybe but not in our lifetime it takes 7 months just to get to mars

Answer 9

Yes, we will s you have heard in the news a new rover is digging up the terrain of mars looking for water and ice.It is only a matter of time before we are looking for resources on other planets because our planet is consuming them at a massive rate in today's world.

Answer 10

Machines made by man (Voyager, Pioneer) have already gone beyond the heliopause, so your question is moot.

Answer 11

Probably, but not in the next 100 years. Jupiter's moons are a likely candidate.

Answer 12

Of course, we have done so already, many times.  And many currently going on or planned in the future.  I guess space exploration history isn't taught in schools (such a shame, there are some very interesting missions going on right now).

Space probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 were launched in 1972, and they are about 90 AU from the sun (which is much farther than Pluto).

Space probes Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were launched in 1977, and are both over 100 AU from the sun (in a region called the heliosheath, the region between the solar system and interstellar space).

The Galileo spaceprobe was launched in 1989, and from 1995 to 2003 it orbited Jupiter and sent back data and images.  Galileo also dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995 - since Jupiter has no physical surface, it was destroyed by increasing temperature and pressure as it descended.

The Cassini-Huygens craft was launched in 1997, and since 2004 it has orbited Saturn and sends back data and images on the planet, its moons, and its rings.  It send lander Huygens to land on the moon Titan, and it sent back data for about 90 minutes.

New Horizons was launched in 2006, and flew by Jupiter last year.  It is scheduled to fly by Pluto in 2015.

Messenger was launched in 2004, it flew by Mercury this past January and is scheduled to enter Mercury orbit in 2011.

Dawn was launched in 2007 and is set to orbit the asteroid Vesta in 2011 and the dwarf planet Ceres in 2015.

And there was a probe that impacted a comet (Deep Impact) and another impacted an asteroid (NEAR Shoemaker).